About this guide: This is a hands-on guide to using SharePoint Designer with SharePoint Online, and what to do now that it has reached end of support. Crow Canyon offers a no-code platform in this space called NITRO Studio, which is covered near the end as one option. The rest of the guide [...]
Small businesses today face a familiar challenge: too much manual work, not enough time. Whether it’s processing customer requests, managing approvals, tracking inventory, or coordinating internal tasks, repetitive processes slow teams down and limit growth. Workflow automation solves this problem and in 2026, it’s no longer a “nice to have.” It’s the fastest [...]
Quick Answer Microsoft Intune is a unified endpoint management (UEM) platform that enrolls, secures, and manages devices and apps. An IT help desk manages tickets, requests, and workflows. Integrating Intune with Crow Canyon’s NITRO Help Desk for IT links tickets to real devices, improving troubleshooting, automation, and asset accuracy, all inside Microsoft 365. [...]
Organizations in government, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, defense, and other highly regulated industries continue to rely on on-premise ticketing systems and on-premise help desk software to maintain control over sensitive information, meet compliance requirements, and integrate with existing infrastructure. While cloud-based help desk platforms have become increasingly common, they are not the right fit [...]
For years, one tool quietly ran half the business processes inside SharePoint. SharePoint Designer built the approvals, the routing, and the reminders that kept purchase requests, onboarding, and document sign-offs moving. Then the classic engine reached its end. On April 2, 2026, Microsoft removed the SharePoint 2013 workflow engine from Microsoft 365 tenants, [...]
You have decided to keep your help desk inside SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Good call. The real question is which SharePoint ticketing system keeps up as your processes get more complex, your team grows, and your compliance needs tighten. Two names come up often: NITRO Help Desk for IT from Crow Canyon, and [...]
You already pay for Microsoft 365. Do you also need to pay per seat for a separate support cloud to handle your own IT tickets? It is a fair question, and it comes up the moment internal IT outgrows a shared inbox. When support still runs through email and chat, requests get lost, tickets [...]
Most IT teams do not start with a help desk. They start with an inbox. Requests come in by email, by Teams message, or by someone stopping a technician in the hallway. It works until it does not. Running support out of email and chat leads to duplicate work, lost requests, and no [...]
One no-code/low-code Application Builder Platform. One Process Automation Platform. Both are pitched as InfoPath replacements. Here is how they actually compare on scope, pricing, deployment, and compliance. With Microsoft InfoPath's end of support on July 14, 2026, and InfoPath Forms Services already being removed from SharePoint Online, teams running on SharePoint and Microsoft [...]
Microsoft InfoPath is done. If your business forms still run on it, that deadline is already here. Microsoft InfoPath Forms Services retired on July 14, 2026 across SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition. The InfoPath 2013 client reaches the end of extended support on the same date. And because [...]
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